> smnsn@my-deja.com writes:> > Does anybody have any idea why my local compiler would be taking> > this much time? What might the compiler be doing with all those extra> > nanoseconds? I'm not sure I can expect that my local compiler might> > be optimized for speed. Actually that's an interesting question in> > itself. Do compilers exist that improve on this 50:1 to 90:1 ratio?>> Supposedly lcc is extremely fast. If you have the time, it would be> interesting to see how well it fares in this case.>

Yes, I asked the author for the sources to be able to compile it with
lcc-win32.
I am still waiting...